SQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 1,473 2,340 3,380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.18% 9.96% 11.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.70% 34.31% 38.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 1,711 2,337
10th Percentile £305 £325 £313
25th Percentile £396 £408 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +5.41% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £545
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £538 £536 £525
% change year-on-year +0.28% +2.10% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 61 97
10th Percentile £22.61 £18.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £27.00 £22.41 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.59 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +50.44% +12.42%
75th Percentile £59.24 £64.50 £49.00
90th Percentile £60.90 £75.75 £60.86
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.00% +42.86% +29.63%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,798 6,820 8,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.38% 29.02% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,224 4,850 6,148
10th Percentile £315 £350 £336
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £646
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 338 330
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.76 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +22.49% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.58 £65.03
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -3 383 £475 -1.94% 401
South East -11 353 £475 -5.47% 318
North West -4 235 £475 - 224
Midlands -7 225 £425 -5.56% 372
Scotland 0 219 £475 -2.56% 126
South West -14 160 £538 +7.50% 203
West Midlands -5 147 £425 -19.05% 218
Yorkshire -7 114 £450 -10.89% 141
East of England -20 84 £450 +5.88% 179
East Midlands -1 76 £400 - 154
Wales +11 35 £450 -16.67% 51
North East +16 34 £475 -5.00% 39
Northern Ireland -1 19 £413 -8.33% 25
South Coast - 3 £500 -
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (3.46%) Confluence
2 48 (3.26%) SAS
3 47 (3.19%) Apache
4 39 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (2.24%) Apache Spark
5 33 (2.24%) SharePoint
6 30 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.81%) IIS
8 7 (0.48%) CMS
8 7 (0.48%) SharePoint 2010
8 7 (0.48%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.34%) nginx
10 5 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.14%) ColdFusion
12 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.14%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.068%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 108 (7.33%) Chatbot
2 63 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.54%) CATIA
4 8 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.54%) SPSS
5 7 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.02%) Teamcenter
2 11 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.54%) Aareon QL
3 8 (0.54%) DELMIA
3 8 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.27%) FastStats
6 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.27%) Unica
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.20%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 334 (22.67%) Azure
2 272 (18.47%) Power Platform
3 215 (14.60%) AWS
4 91 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 76 (5.16%) Serverless
7 60 (4.07%) Snowflake
8 50 (3.39%) Amazon S3
8 50 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (2.85%) Power Automate
10 41 (2.78%) GCP
11 40 (2.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 36 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
14 30 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 30 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
15 28 (1.90%) PowerApps
16 27 (1.83%) GitHub
17 26 (1.77%) OpenShift
18 25 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.10%) Firewall
2 28 (1.90%) DNS
3 25 (1.70%) DHCP
4 18 (1.22%) SAN
5 17 (1.15%) VPN
6 15 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.95%) BGP
8 11 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (0.75%) Fibre Channel
8 11 (0.75%) MPLS
8 11 (0.75%) Network Security
8 11 (0.75%) Radio Access Network
9 9 (0.61%) AMQP
9 9 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.54%) FTP
10 8 (0.54%) WAN
11 7 (0.48%) LAN
12 6 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.41%) Skype
13 5 (0.34%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (17.31%) Power BI
2 243 (16.50%) SQL Server
3 132 (8.96%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (6.86%) Tableau
5 97 (6.59%) Relational Database
6 93 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
7 82 (5.57%) NoSQL
8 81 (5.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 79 (5.36%) Oracle Database
10 73 (4.96%) Data Lake
11 58 (3.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 52 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 51 (3.46%) Big Data
14 50 (3.39%) MySQL
15 38 (2.58%) MongoDB
16 34 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
17 31 (2.10%) Metadata
17 31 (2.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 27 (1.83%) BigQuery
19 23 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 121 (8.21%) JIRA
2 110 (7.47%) Git
3 57 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.04%) GitLab
5 28 (1.90%) Oracle APEX
5 28 (1.90%) Visual Studio
6 26 (1.77%) Postman
6 26 (1.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 22 (1.49%) JUnit
8 20 (1.36%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.15%) Selenium
10 16 (1.09%) TestRail
11 14 (0.95%) Rational Rhapsody
12 12 (0.81%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.81%) Robot Framework
13 11 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
14 9 (0.61%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.54%) IntelliJ
15 8 (0.54%) webpack
16 7 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 303 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 207 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
3 178 (12.08%) Finance
4 93 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 60 (4.07%) Retail
6 48 (3.26%) Banking
7 36 (2.44%) Marketing
8 31 (2.10%) Telecoms
9 29 (1.97%) Manufacturing
10 28 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (1.36%) Military
11 20 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (1.15%) Legal
13 16 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.95%) Automotive
15 13 (0.88%) Local Government
16 12 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.68%) Billing
17 10 (0.68%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 546 (37.07%) Developer
2 199 (13.51%) Analyst
3 141 (9.57%) Senior
4 128 (8.69%) Software Developer
5 127 (8.62%) Data Engineer
6 121 (8.21%) Data Analyst
7 72 (4.89%) Architect
8 70 (4.75%) SQL Developer
9 61 (4.14%) DBA
10 56 (3.80%) Lead
11 55 (3.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 49 (3.33%) Java Developer
13 47 (3.19%) Test Engineer
14 43 (2.92%) Senior Developer
14 43 (2.92%) SQL DBA
15 39 (2.65%) Consultant
16 38 (2.58%) Azure Engineer
17 35 (2.38%) Power BI Developer
18 33 (2.24%) Oracle Developer
19 31 (2.10%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (11.54%) HTML
2 111 (7.54%) .NET
3 103 (6.99%) REST
4 70 (4.75%) Spring
5 59 (4.01%) Spring Boot
6 58 (3.94%) CSS
7 57 (3.87%) RESTful
8 55 (3.73%) AngularJS
9 47 (3.19%) XML
10 43 (2.92%) React
11 41 (2.78%) Kafka
12 33 (2.24%) SOAP
13 31 (2.10%) JSON
14 24 (1.63%) .NET Core
15 21 (1.43%) Node.js
15 21 (1.43%) Web Services
16 19 (1.29%) PySpark
17 17 (1.15%) AWS CDK
18 16 (1.09%) .NET Framework
19 15 (1.02%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 42 (2.85%) Product Ownership
2 28 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
3 27 (1.83%) Cloud Native
3 27 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (1.77%) Onboarding
4 26 (1.77%) PKI
5 24 (1.63%) Management Information System
6 23 (1.56%) Replication
6 23 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 21 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.29%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.22%) Clustering
11 13 (0.88%) Data Centre
11 13 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (0.81%) Mobile App
13 11 (0.75%) NHS
14 10 (0.68%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 134 (9.10%) Windows
2 91 (6.18%) Linux
3 83 (5.63%) Unix
4 75 (5.09%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 21 (1.43%) Windows 10
7 19 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.29%) VMS
8 16 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.81%) Windows 7
11 10 (0.68%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.48%) Android
12 7 (0.48%) Solaris
13 5 (0.34%) AIX
14 4 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
15 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (22.95%) Agile
2 299 (20.30%) Business Intelligence
3 193 (13.10%) Data Modelling
3 193 (13.10%) Software Engineering
4 191 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
5 183 (12.42%) Analytics
6 182 (12.36%) DevOps
7 179 (12.15%) Migration
8 168 (11.41%) ETL
9 145 (9.84%) Artificial Intelligence
10 141 (9.57%) CI/CD
11 120 (8.15%) Code Quality
12 117 (7.94%) Scrum
13 114 (7.74%) Visualisation
14 108 (7.33%) Conversational UI
15 98 (6.65%) Data Analysis
16 93 (6.31%) Data Migration
17 84 (5.70%) Test Automation
18 78 (5.30%) CRM
19 77 (5.23%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 385 (26.14%) Python
2 242 (16.43%) C#
3 203 (13.78%) JavaScript
4 169 (11.47%) Java
5 145 (9.84%) PL/SQL
6 69 (4.68%) T-SQL
7 58 (3.94%) PowerShell
8 55 (3.73%) TypeScript
9 36 (2.44%) Shell Script
10 31 (2.10%) Bash
11 30 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 28 (1.90%) C
13 27 (1.83%) R
14 24 (1.63%) Scala
15 22 (1.49%) Go
16 21 (1.43%) PHP
17 20 (1.36%) C++
18 15 (1.02%) VB
19 11 (0.75%) VBA
20 9 (0.61%) ProC
Qualifications
1 226 (15.34%) Degree
2 189 (12.83%) Security Cleared
3 132 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 44 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 37 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (1.49%) MCSE
8 21 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 16 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 15 (1.02%) MCSA
12 14 (0.95%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.88%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.48%) ISEB
15 6 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.34%) SAP Certification
17 4 (0.27%) AWS Certification
18 2 (0.14%) CCNA
18 2 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
18 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.02%) Data Quality
2 73 (4.96%) QA
3 19 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.02%) GDPR
4 15 (1.02%) HL7
5 13 (0.88%) SLA
6 7 (0.48%) GxP
7 6 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.34%) GAMP
9 4 (0.27%) IFRS
9 4 (0.27%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.14%) PMO
11 2 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.068%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.068%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.068%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.068%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (6.86%) Docker
2 84 (5.70%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.68%) vSphere
6 6 (0.41%) NFS
7 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.27%) GPFS
8 4 (0.27%) HDFS
8 4 (0.27%) VirtualBox
8 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.068%) ACF2
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.068%) RACF
11 1 (0.068%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 61 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.73%) Terraform
3 43 (2.92%) Ansible
4 35 (2.38%) Grafana
5 14 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.68%) SCCM
8 8 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
8 8 (0.54%) Kibana
8 8 (0.54%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.41%) HP Fortify
9 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.41%) SCOM
10 5 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (0.34%) HP Data Protector
10 5 (0.34%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.27%) Nagios
11 4 (0.27%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.27%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 4 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 234 (15.89%) Oracle
2 230 (15.61%) Microsoft
3 108 (7.33%) PayPal
4 57 (3.87%) Databricks
5 52 (3.53%) VMware
6 40 (2.72%) Google
7 37 (2.51%) SAP
8 33 (2.24%) Salesforce
9 32 (2.17%) Informatica
10 23 (1.56%) Splunk
11 21 (1.43%) Avaloq
12 16 (1.09%) Alteryx
13 14 (0.95%) Cisco
14 13 (0.88%) Red Hat
14 13 (0.88%) Talend
15 12 (0.81%) EMC
16 11 (0.75%) HP
16 11 (0.75%) IBM
16 11 (0.75%) IFS
17 9 (0.61%) Brocade